my first reaction was that people might be unaware of the CloudAct, or the FVYE arrangement (AABill) that forces Austrialians working in any Tech company to stay silent if their government forces them to hide a backdoor in code (likely on behalf of yank big brother).

but then anyone who today defends Snowden is called a "tankie" and friend of the Russian invasion of UA.

The truth is probably that Snowden today is ignored in the infosec community because we no longer remember that he embarrassed the worlds biggest industrial complex by sharing audi footage of obese American drone pilots laughing at brown civilians getting murdered from the safety of their air conditioned containers in Utah.

Any of this is brushed aside as "whataboutsim", because in times of a manufactured external threat any country and its people move closer together thanks to propaganda. And let's not forget Americans are the most propagandized population in the world.

Absolutely free Ukraine ... but let's not forget Europe is not at all sharing the ultra-capitalist values of ding-dong, mad-as-a-hatter America.